FOSS but also no ads. And don't harvest any data to sell either.
I genuinely don't understand where revenue streams are meant to come from for any of this software with peoples expectations.
But honestly Lemmy is so pro piracy that it doesn't really matter if you were to charge for your product
I mean, the easy option is just selecting your level of experience at the beginning and offering experienced players an option to skip the tutorial.
As someone that used to love OnePlus, what's the more recent equivalent?
I felt like around the 3 or so, I could get a flagship-ish phone for a reasonable price. Is there anything like that now?
No arms though.
For parts of the world 'free bank' and 'free transfers' are just the norm anyway. I'm amazed it isn't the case in the US already.
I go on reddit for the TeachingUK sub and for the rugbyunion sub.
If those communities existed here in any meaningful way then I'd be done with reddit properly at this point.
I think the Internet is partially to blame.
The negative stuff happening in the world seems to spread so much faster and get so much more publicity that it's easy to end up in a constant negative spiral
How will these protests lead to meaningful change? Do you think this form of protest will result in any more success than aforementioned 'right way'?
Sure - but what do the attendees of a gaming conference have to do with new oil wells being approved?
I switched the opposite direction a year or two ago.
Being stuck sat a desk at work all day makes me want to game on the sofa in the evenings and I find a console a much handier way of doing that.
Cause if you don't buy the $70 disc drive, then you save $50. That's the logic...
Long as you're happy to be limited to digital purchases and not be able to buy 2nd hand games.
I guess the disc drive is also good if you decide a year or two later 'hmmm, maybe I should've got the disc version actually'.
I'm all for having both. I personally prefer 'AAA' games over indie games but I think there's just different flavours for different folks.
That said, SC is a mega scam at this point and I can't believe people are still continuing to fund it to this level.